The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
The picnic season has struck us.


The NJ. +. Sunday school picnicked at
Lake Park OH Thursday last
Ice cream and coffee sociable at the First
Baptist church tonight. Everybody invited.
Cummings offers special sales for Thursday,
Friday and Saturday of this week. See his
" ad.'
A letter from Keeler announces the death
of DR.. Bartholomew estimable wife, on
Monday at 1880 a. III.
T.. G.. Butler has a new delivery wagon.
Bill says it was made expressly for him
easy to get in and out Of
Alb Showermans little daughter has been
seriously i'll for some time past, but hopes
are now entertained of her recovery.
James Waters, who some time since pur-
chased the place adjoining his, is moving
and combining the two houses into one.
There is to be a wedding the second day
of the fair, to take place in the judges stand.
See what is said about il in another column.
H. A. Rogers did such fine job of gild-
ing on the sign of Hawkins d Son, that the
masons employed him to letter the curtains
in their hall.
A basket of fine grapes from n. o. Martin s
young vineyard, is good proof that he is
about to reap an abundant harvest, in spite
of the drouth
jay Rickard has purchased the house and
lot on Niles street known as the Stevenson
place. He intends TO give it quite an over
hauling this fall.
The Goblevile ball tossers will play re-
turn game with the Paw Paw club on Friday
afternoon, at the fair ground in this place.
Play will be called at three o'clock.
Judging from the sample OF premium corn
taken from Johnny Cooks thirty acre field
in Southeast Decatur, the crop in that sec
ton, at least, was not materially affected by
the recent drouth.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Spackeen were pleas
antly surprised by party of friends last
Friday evening. the occasion being the TWEEN .
tieth anniversary of their marriage. A
splendid time is reported.
Messrs. Trescott 81 Remington, spoken of
last week as fitting up the Paw Paw mills
warehouse for evaporating purposes, will be
ready to buy and receive fruit the latter part
of this week. They will pay the highest
cash market price for all grades.
we nave TecClNeu Il uOllCc Oh tue SlNLu
annual fair of the northern Indiana and
southern Michigan agricultural society, to be
held on the society's grounds between
the cities of Mishawaka and South Bend,
September 10Th TO the 10th inclusive.
The Detroit Journal and Chicago Mail
have become so interested in the game of
base ball to be played by their newsboys at
Detroit tomorrow, that they will uniform
the contestants like the league clubs of their
respective cities.
The following letters remained uncalled
for in the Paw Paw postofice for the week
ending August 29th: S. Il. Dix, Mrs. n. +.
Harrison, Mrs. Laura Rowland, Mrs Ellie
johnson. Mrs. G. Z. Osborne, Il. w. Smiley,
Mrs. a. 4. Smith.
Next Sunday morning Rev. Mr.. Bell will
preach at the Baptist church on "The Sig
nificance and Object of the Lords Supper. .
At night he will begin a series of sermons on
special subjects, taking for the first 1.-The
Queen Woman of the Bible"
Left on our table last week, by ". ID.
Longwell Esq, ex-town clerk and treasurer
of the Paw Paw base ball club, a rare speci-
men of an apple, very appropriately called
the Liliputian apple. The first real clear,
bright day we have, step in and ask Harry to
show you one.
The residents on Niles street say that
nearly every night someone is singing,
Dad, dear dad, come home with me now
the clock in the steeple strikes one, you said
you were coming right home from the mill
as soon as your days work was DONE" Ii
ought to be stopped.
Our old friend John McLain writes that
he fully realizes that lit never rains, but il
pours," for the hail destroyed his corn, the
rain injured the rest of his crops and now
one of his best horses is dead. Cheer up
John, there is another saying equally true
zone extreme always follows another"
Grandpa Mather will have to take back
seat, as John w. Stuyvesant of Decatur
comes to the front with n statement of TWEEN
ty-eight living grandchildren. He also states
that he has n little great granddaughter who
is unusually well provided with living ances-
tors, since she has six grandmothers and
three grandfathers Next